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Device for Hanging Articles in Windows. No. 228,988. a Patented June 22,1880.

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UNITED STATES I PATENT OFFICE.

HORACE DUMARS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

DEVICE FOR HANGING ARTICLES IN WINDOWS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 228,988, dated June 22, 1880,

Application filed. May 3, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HORACE DUMARS, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvement in Devices for Hanging Placards, Pictures, and Similar Articles in Windows, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of the device; Fig. 2, a similar elevation, showing a modification; Fig. 3, a sectional view of the tab; and Fig. 4 a detail, being an end elevation of a portion of the frame that holds the placard.

The same letters denote the same parts.

The present device constitutes a neat and convenient means for exhibiting placards, pictures, bills, and similar things in shop Win- (lows.

A represents a tab of any suitable outline. It is gummed upon its side, as shown at a, Fig. 3, and it is furnished with a book, a.

The tab, by means of the gum a, is glued to the glass of the window in which it is desired to exhibitthe placard. The latter is held in a frame, B, which is suspended from the tab, either by hooking it directly thereon, as in Fig. 1, or by means of a cord, 0, Fig. 2.

The frame is of Wire. It may, in its general outline, be of any desired configuration consistent with the object of the device; but in making the frame the Wire is coiled around at various places, forming eyes I) b b b, which serve to connect the frame with the tab to hold the placards, and also to give springiness to the frame-that is, by means of the center eye, I), the frame may be hung directly onto the hook of the tab, or, by means of the eyes I) b and cord 0, be hung down therefrom. Second, the placards D E are attached to the frame by inserting the placards between the layers I) b of the coils, as shown in Fig. 4; and, third, the coils of the eyes constitute springs, which are of service in this way: In attaching the placard the ends of the frame may be sprung slightly together. The springs then act to hold the placard, if flexible, out straight.

The tab can be removed from the window by moistening the gum; but, as is obvious, the frame and placards can be changed or removed without necessitating a removalof the tab.

I claim- The herein -described device for hanging placards and similar articles in windows, consisting of the tab A, hook a,'and frame 33, having the coiled eyes I) b b, substantially as described.

HORACE DUMARS.

Witnesses HENRY RoEDER, PAUL BAKEWELL. 

